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"How productive did you feel last week? If you got less done than you'd hoped....what kept you from staying on task? For many people, a constant stream of interruptions is the biggest hurdle to productivity. So, here's some advice for preventing unnecessary interruptions from taking more than their fair share of your upcoming week...

Many of us will accumulate vast libraries of digital books and music over the course of our lifetimes, but when we die, our collections of words and music may expire with us.

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Someone who owned 10,000 hardcover books and the same number of vinyl records could bequeath them to descendants, but legal experts say passing on iTunes and Kindle libraries would be much more complicated. And one’s heirs stand to lose huge sums of money. “I find it hard to imagine a situation where a family would be okay with losing a collection of 10,000 books and songs,” says Evan Carroll, co-author of “Your Digital Afterlife.” “Legally dividing one account among several heirs would also be extremely difficult.”read entire article

Quick, look around. How far away from you is your mobile phone? If you’re like the rest of us, the answer is not very far. Our phones are wireless but somehow we feel like they are always attached to us or, more correctly, we are always attached to them!

"If you have a Facebook account, you've probably faced the dilemma of whether to accept a friend request from a business associate. Declining the invitation can cause wrinkles in professional relationships, but accepting the invitation may mean that you may not be able share as freely as you'd like on Facebook. In this article I'll show you how configure your Facebook friends list so that only your closest friends will see what you post unless you choose to share with a broader group.

I'll first show you how to create a list of friends that you want to exclude from your general posts. I'll then show you how to adjust your Facebook settings so that you can manage what this list of friends gets to see when you post on Facebook. Away we go:..."read entire article

"I’m a CPA, a professional in an esteemed profession. I’m also a “social animal.” The word “social” can be an adjective or a noun. This article answers the question: Can social media and the CPA profession mix?